The Fortuitous One's Final Despair, Qin Wuya's Dead End
The Fortuitous One’s Final Despair, Qin Wuya’s Dead End
Within the courtyard, mottled light flickered, the wind rustled, and bamboo shadows swayed.
Numerous dishes and wines had fallen to the ground, and even the stone table had exploded.
This was because, the moment Qin Wuya collapsed, he could not control his own aura, which leaked out and caused the surroundings to burst apart—even the void itself nearly crumbled.
After all, he possessed Sacred King Realm cultivation. Even gravely poisoned, he was not someone ordinary Cultivators could approach.
He spat out several mouthfuls of black blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs, yet the excruciating pain did not cease in the slightest. It felt as though his body would be dissolved into pus and blood from the inside—truly horrifying and chilling.
His face drained of all color, Qin Wuya scrambled up from the ground, stuffed a handful of pills into his mouth, then sat cross-legged, attempting to expel the poison from his body. He knew he had been poisoned.
The wine and dishes before him contained a terrifying poison—one that even a Sacred King Realm expert could hardly withstand.
“Why would you do this...”
While purging the poison, Qin Wuya looked at Tang Wan in agony and disbelief, his voice trembling. He knew the only reason he had been poisoned was his own carelessness—he had believed Tang Wan would never harm him.
The vigilance he had honed over the years in the Nine Heavens Paradise had vanished without a trace.
That was why he had failed to notice the poison hidden in the food and wine.
He simply could not believe that Tang Wan would harm him—and that she had personally prepared the meal, spending most of the day on it.
At this moment, Qin Wuya’s heart ached terribly—betrayal, grief, sorrow, disbelief.
Although Tang Wan had yet to recover the memories of her previous life, he had done so much for her during this time. Could she truly not see it? Qin Wuya could not understand why Tang Wan would harm him.
There was no enmity between the two of them at all.
“I’m sorry.”
“But I had no choice. I could only do this.” Tang Wan’s expression was even calmer than Qin Wuya had imagined.
And she said only this one sentence, appearing utterly cold.
Tang Wan’s attitude caused Qin Wuya even greater pain, and despair began to set in.
“Why would you do this? Who is threatening you? Can you tell me?”
Flames rose around him, clusters of dazzling brilliance, attempting to evaporate the poison from his body.
This was a secret art from the Nine Heavens Paradise.
But he discovered the poison was terrifying—it had already seeped into his divine soul.
So there must be someone directing her from the shadows, or threatening her, forcing her to do this. Tang Wan looked at him calmly, saying nothing, merely standing there.
She had not expected Qin Wuya’s strength to be so terrifying. The dreadfulness of the Immortal-Burying Water went without saying.
Yet Qin Wuya had endured for so long, and his complexion was even beginning to recover somewhat.
Not only did he possess mysterious secret arts, he also commanded all manner of rare divine pills and wondrous medicines, gradually suppressing his injuries.
“Qin Wuya, I actually learned of my identity long ago.”
“Thank you for your kindness these past days, but there can never be anything between us. I am not your wife. In this life, you and I were never meant to have any connection.”
Just as Qin Wuya’s heart ached unbearably, Tang Wan calmly spoke once more—revealing a fact that made his mind roar and nearly go blank.
“What...”
Qin Wuya’s eyes widened once again. He could not believe these words had come from Tang Wan’s mouth—especially since she had just spoken his true name.
This forced him to accept this shocking, staggering reality.
“You knew all along... that you were my wife from my previous life?”
Qin Wuya’s voice trembled.
Did that not mean that all these days, Tang Wan had merely been playing along, while he remained completely oblivious?
In an instant, Qin Wuya’s face twisted in agony.
He had never imagined that tonight he would learn such an enormous truth—one that brought him pain, despair, and above all, fury and hatred.
Tang Wan nodded calmly. Watching Qin Wuya’s current state, the small trace of guilt that had just risen in her heart dissipated.
In Qin Wuya’s eyes, she was merely his wife from a previous life. Everything he had done for her was only because of that.
Of this, she was perfectly clear.
“Who is orchestrating all of this from behind the scenes?”
“From the very beginning, I was being plotted against. You saw everything I did, didn’t you?”
“That’s why tonight happened.”
By now, Qin Wuya had figured it all out, and his gaze turned icy cold.
Tang Wan had known her identity all along, yet still treated him this way.
This filled him with boundless rage, the fury in his heart nearly impossible to vent.
Moreover, how had Tang Wan learned of this matter? She had never drunk the water of the Lake of Reincarnation. Could it be that she had awakened the memories of her previous life on her own? “You will find out sooner or later.”
“You offended someone you should never have offended. This is your fate.”
Once the Tang Family’s affairs were resolved smoothly, it would all be worth it to her. “You actually schemed against me like this...”
Overcome with rage and panic, Qin Wuya could not calm himself and spat out another mouthful of black blood.
“Wrong. It wasn’t her.”
Just then, a faint laugh suddenly came from beyond the courtyard.
A tall, slender figure materialized from the void. Gu Changge revealed himself of his own accord, walking over with an air of great interest. “You really did disappoint me.”
Gu Changge laughed casually, then unhurriedly walked up to Qin Wuya, whose face was filled with shock, horror, and utter disbelief.
“I dare not defy Young Master Changge’s will.”
Tang Wan was deeply fearful of Gu Changge. Hearing this, she lowered her head—which also served as an indirect explanation to Qin Wuya of who had been scheming behind all of this. “Gu Changge? Why are you here?” “All of this... you were the one harming me in the shadows?”
Of all the people Qin Wuya hated most, if Gu Changge ranked second, absolutely no one could rank first.
He gritted his teeth, his hatred surging to the heavens, no longer able to maintain his usual calm and composed demeanor.
For he had never imagined Gu Changge would appear here, nor that Tang Wan was acting under his orders.
The scene of his junior brother, Heavenly Monarch Ziyang, dying miserably at Gu Changge’s hands was still vivid in his mind, impossible for Qin Wuya to forget.
And now, this great enemy had revealed himself of his own accord—Qin Wuya wished nothing more than to erupt and fight him to the death. “Qin Wuya, we meet again.”
“Last time I let you escape, yet you failed to learn your lesson. Now you can’t blame me.”
Gu Changge looked down at him with great interest, his expression like one watching an insect struggling on the brink of death. “Gu Changge, you despicable, shameless cur!”
“Scheming against me like this—you’re unworthy of being the leader of the current Beyond!”
A chill ran down Qin Wuya’s spine, and he could not help but curse aloud, his eyes filled with hatred and fury.
Under Gu Changge’s gaze, his entire body felt as though it would burst apart—especially now, gravely poisoned as he was, utterly unable to bring out his true strength. Moreover, Gu Changge’s power was clearly far more terrifying than before, vast as an abyssal sea, enough to make him tremble.
“Do you know? The way you are now, you feel to me like a drowning insect—one that could be swallowed by a single wave at any moment.”
Gu Changge paid no mind to his cursing, his face still bearing that breezy, carefree smile.
“Actually, I’m more curious—with your meager abilities, how did you survive all these years in a place like the Nine Heavens Paradise? Were you eking out an existence at the fringes? Or have I overestimated you?”
Hearing this, Qin Wuya’s expression changed once more. His centuries of living in the Nine Heavens Paradise were his greatest secret.
No one but himself knew of it. Yet now Gu Changge had spoken it aloud in a single breath. It made his scalp go numb, as though his skull would split open—he could hardly believe it.
“What... what are you?”
Qin Wuya’s voice carried unprecedented trembling and fear.
He suddenly understood why Heavenly Monarch Ziyang had fallen to Gu Changge’s vicious hand, and how Tang Wan knew of her past life’s identity.
“What am I? That’s something you don’t need to know.” Gu Changge smiled, his smile appearing rather warm and gentle, yet his eyes held not the slightest ripple of emotion—cold and fathomless.
Seeing that Qin Wuya’s Fortuity points had fallen to their lowest, he could not be bothered with further words and directly struck out with a palm toward him. Divine light surged, a terrifying aura like the collapse of the azure heavens, smashing down upon him.
“Gu Changge, I’ll fight you to the death!”
Seeing this, Qin Wuya simply threw caution to the wind, casting life and death aside.
He roared in fury. Golden light rose behind him, and chains of order, sharp as heavenly blades and world-shaking, slashed toward Gu Changge with a chi sound.
But before they could even touch Gu Changge, they were shattered by the aura surrounding him, utterly unable to draw near.
At the same time, Gu Changge’s palm was incomparably domineering, like the hand of a Supreme Ruler, wreathed in divine light, suppressing down from the sky, capable of grinding all things to dust.
Every means of resistance Qin Wuya possessed collapsed in an instant. They were simply not on the same level—he had no chance to resist at all.
The next moment, enduring the intense pain, he opened his mouth and spat out a golden dharma banner.
This was a mysterious secret treasure he had obtained from the Nine Heavens Paradise, immensely powerful, possessing terrifying might.
The golden dharma banner swelled against the wind, stained with traces of blood and fragments of shattered stars, rapidly enlarging until it appeared in his hand, flapping loudly, golden radiance surging, shaking heaven and earth.
In the night, this scene was utterly astonishing—yet it was firmly locked within the courtyard, unable to leak out. Hazy Chaos Energy spread around the surroundings, sealing everything off.
“Boom—”
Qin Wuya’s eyes nearly split from strain. Gripping the flagpole with both hands, he swung it with all his might, shaking it violently.
In a mere instant, vast waves of power surged forth. The stars and moon dimmed, heaven and earth inverted, and the sky nearly split apart.
The golden dharma banner was truly extraordinary, fluttering continuously, its divine might terrifying, crashing toward Gu Changge’s descending palm.
But the next moment, with a ripping sound—
Gu Changge’s expression did not change in the slightest, nor did his palm carry any excess fluctuation.
It merely suppressed down from high above, carrying a vast and majestic ancient aura, tearing the golden dharma banner apart.
“How is this possible?!”
Qin Wuya was horrified, already driven to his final dead end. The golden dharma banner was an artifact of the Nine Heavens, wondrous beyond compare—how could it be destroyed by Gu Changge? He could not believe it, but belief or not changed nothing. This was the bloody, undeniable reality.
Qin Wuya despaired. He had no means of resistance left. Gu Changge’s strength was simply not something he could contend with—even unpoisoned, at his peak, it would have been the same.
The next moment, the palm slammed down. The void collapsed and caved in, completely engulfing Qin Wuya.
He was slapped to death on the spot, bursting apart into a mist of blood.
His divine soul was also devoured by Gu Changge in one gulp—he intended to later sift through Qin Wuya’s memories regarding the Nine Heavens Paradise.
As for the storage ring Qin Wuya left behind, Gu Changge directly seized it.
He knew Qin Wuya possessed quite a few good things. Probing it with his divine sense, he immediately found it glittering with five-colored light, filled with all manner of treasures.
Besides numerous divine materials, there were various secret treasures, fragmented scriptures, and Stone Engravings—all originating from the Nine Heavens Paradise, not things of the current Beyond.
Gu Changge even spotted a divine pill sealed within a jade jar.
Opening it for a look, the pill’s fragrance wafted out, radiant mists glowing brilliantly, manifesting in the void like the Milky Way itself.
“An All Wonders Pill.”
“An Eight Trigrams Yang Pill.”
Then, with a sweep of his sleeve, he stored all of these things away. As for the Heavenly Gift Treasure Chest, Fortuity points, Destiny value, and other gains, they were considerable as well.
The Heavenly Gift Treasure Chest dropped from killing Qin Wuya was noticeably dimmer in light than the one from the War Immortal Li Xiu. Gu Changge surmised this was due to the difference in their peak strengths.
Amidst waves of golden light, the Heavenly Gift Treasure Chest opened, and what emerged within did indeed catch Gu Changge’s interest.
It was a Stone Engraving wreathed in purple energy, inscribed with numerous ancient characters, quite blurry, with Chaos Energy flickering in and out of sight, exuding a grand and archaic air.
“A Spacetime Stone.”
Reading the explanation that surfaced, Gu Changge quickly understood this item’s purpose. In a sense, it was quite similar to Transportation Arrays.
But Transportation Arrays could only teleport within the same era.
And the time traversed always remained along a single line, without the slightest deviation.
Yet before one even touched upon the profundities of the River of Time, this object could allow a person to cross the ages.
“It’s somewhat similar to the Celestial Boat of Creation, except the Spacetime Stone is merely a coordinate—once fixed, it cannot be changed.”
“And this coordinate can only be sought within the River of Time.”
“Reversing the flow of the ages is not something mortal power can achieve.” Gu Changge put away the Spacetime Stone—it might prove useful someday.
After finishing all this, Gu Changge glanced at the still somewhat stunned Tang Wan, then withdrew the sealing power enveloping the surroundings. Without paying her any further heed, he departed directly.
Tang Wan no longer held much value for him now.
But considering the matter of Chu Hao, keeping Tang Wan around might yet serve some other purpose.
“It’s over... just like that?”
Watching Gu Changge’s figure vanish, Tang Wan let out a sigh of relief.
The unease and fear from moments ago gradually faded, and her heart calmed.
In her eyes, Qin Wuya’s strength was already terrifying—even an ordinary Sacred Emperor Realm expert might not be his match.
Though he had been gravely poisoned, he could not even withstand a single palm from Gu Changge.
The many rumors circulating in the Beyond had clearly underestimated Gu Changge’s true strength.
Qin Wuya’s death was no great matter as far as the Tang Family was concerned.
Aside from Tang Wan, no one knew what had happened that night.
Old Master Tang and the others did not even know a man named Qin Wuya had ever existed.
And with Qin Wuya dealt with, the Tang Family’s affairs held nothing more for Gu Changge to concern himself with.
Moreover, he had already given Yin Mei her instructions—any who refused to submit were simply to be killed, without worrying about the trouble.
The Tang Family’s collateral members, having lost the one instigating them from behind, naturally lost their nerve. After a few were killed, the rest were cowed into submission and obediently handed over the assets behind them.
Thus, the Tang Family’s numerous holdings smoothly fell firmly under Yin Mei’s control.
Afterward, Gu Changge sent word to Bai Lian’er of the Nephrite Breeze Pavilion, summoning her to come. Regarding the most critically lacking eyes and ears, Yin Mei could coordinate the handover with her.
In this way, the Nephrite Breeze Pavilion’s assassination efficiency could be raised several fold.